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The Maillard Reaction
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January 12, 11 10:24 AM (permalink)

CD Architect tutorials?

Are there any tutorials for using CD Architect floating around?

I feel dumb and foolish every time I try to reorder some tracks and usually just build a new .cdp project from scratch

I know that's really lame on my part... it seems like I am missing some real simple things and am hoping to not have to read a couple hundred pages of manual to move up in competency on the program.

Thanks.

best regards,
mike



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    The Maillard Reaction
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    Re:CD Architect tutorials? January 12, 11 10:38 AM (permalink)
    Yuck I just went to YouTube and it's CD Architect videos are overwhelmingly dedicated to teaching folks how to crack the trial copy.

    I just want to get better at using my licensed copy.

    Off to the SONY website.

    Maybe someone can suggest a legit pay to view tutorial?

    thanks,
    mike


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    Re:CD Architect tutorials? January 12, 11 11:14 AM (permalink)
    CD architect is easy to work with & figure out.
    Here's the forum link if you still need it.

    http://www.sonycreativeso...owTopics.asp?ForumID=5
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    Re:CD Architect tutorials? January 12, 11 11:18 AM (permalink)
    Mike, I use CDA, but I always try to get it sounding and sequenced exactly how I like in Sonar before importing it to CDA.

    My "Album" project consists of the same number of tracks as I have songs.

    I thn import them, one at a time into their own track, and drag them around until it's what I want, something like this

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    At least this way, I don't have to learn all of the ins & outs of CDA - just how to burn a CD

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    Re:CD Architect tutorials? January 12, 11 12:27 AM (permalink)
    Thanks guys.

    I've had CD Architect for many years... I usually put everything on one track.

    But when I try to reorder the songs I end up with a mess of overlaps and stuff I want to avoid.

    I'll give both ideas a try.

    I have feeling that there may be a video somewhere that will provide my with that AHA moment where I can suddenly drag the clips back and forth and have the songs shuffle around without creating undesired overlaps.

    Thanks,
    mike


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    Re:CD Architect tutorials? January 12, 11 12:44 AM (permalink)
    I understand you correctly first enable snapping.
    If you're not cross-fading & the tunes in your project are completed with start times / fades you can either remove all tunes from the time-line then quickly double them in media pool in sequence.
    -  or click+hold+drag on the songs cd track title in the time-line/  (then right click set to correct pause time if needed)

    There must be some vids out there.

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    Re:CD Architect tutorials? January 12, 11 1:41 PM (permalink)
    That pretty much what I do... but I keep think there must be a way to shuffle them on the time line.

    Thanks for your help and advice.

    I think it's time to simply read the manual and finally learn the program... I have just been avoiding wading through all the features I don't use like the efx, fades and stuff.

    best regards,
    mike


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    Re:CD Architect tutorials? January 12, 11 3:04 PM (permalink)
    Mike,

    I've found you just have to grab the songs and move them to insert a new one in the middle.  And you have to be sure and pull the name(s) thingy underneath in the timeline too.  IF you find an easy way to shuffle stuff, let us know.

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    Re:CD Architect tutorials? January 12, 11 4:15 PM (permalink)
    Alright!!!

    I was just coming back to report that I had my ahah moment while reading the manual and AT, you just showed me the second way.

    I had just found that you can use the track list to reorder quickly by dragging the tracks up and down the list.

    Also, AT just showed me that you can drag and drop the information labels in the CD Layout Bar to do the very same. I thought I had tried that before... and when you grab the wave form drawing it works totally differently.

    For years now I have tried cut and paste with ripple edit option active and it always closed the "pause" that is between the clips... so I always made a mess and got a bit frustrated.

    Today I finally figured out the 2 really easy ways to do what I was calling "shuffling" my songs to experiment with different play lists.

    Thanks so much for all the help!

    best regards,
    mike



    edited to use nomenclature as used in the manual.
    post edited by mike_mccue - January 13, 11 5:55 PM


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    Re:CD Architect tutorials? January 12, 11 11:48 PM (permalink)
    Yeah, like what AT suggested.  I just open the second layer and drag tracks around, back and forth, in the desire order.  CDA is pretty darn simple.  I have also used the track list as you have found.  Anyhow, seems like you got it.

    Kind regards,


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